Given how scorching and typically humid it’s in Shanghai in July, it’s a surprise there are any birds right here on this month, significantly making an allowance for that the majority chook nests will not be air-conditioned. Nonetheless, a couple of spend the summer time right here.
The Chinese language Hwamei is a second-level protected species in China – as a consequence, in keeping with Chinese language regulation on wildlife safety, it’s prohibited for native individuals to seize and preserve the species in captivity and not using a allow.
Nonetheless, this doesn’t appear to assist the Chinese language Hwamei a lot – a examine reveals that this laws is generally ignored, and Hwamei keepers give the same old excuses similar to advantages for the neighborhood members’ well being, cultural heritage and contributions to native livelihoods (at the least the final two of those arguments are in all probability additionally cited by US jail guards as an argument to not cut back the US jail inhabitants).
Surprisingly, the writer of the examine makes use of this example as an argument to not ban conserving Hwameis in captivity unlawful altogether however reasonably simply to restrict the conserving. One of many causes acknowledged is “the advantages of the individuals” (not the birds). Hmm, I believe I disagree with the writer.
As well as, whereas there’s restricted or no authorized commerce of Chinese language Hwameis to different international locations, the species remains to be available in chook markets in international locations similar to Thailand and Indonesia (supply) – poor chook.
Whereas I simply wrote a submit concerning the Amur Paradise Flycatcher and one in every of its shut family members, this isn’t a motive to not present some extra images of the species.
When you ever needed to know the way it feels to swim in a bowl during which salad is being washed, you may wish to ask these Little Grebes.
And that’s it for Shanghai for this month, at the least from me – other than the warmth and the relative lack of birds, one more reason for the shortness of this submit is that I spent half of the month in Borneo. Guess what I did there.
